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Re:Cursed Elixir by whitexn--g28h on Monday October 19, 2020 @12:19AM (#24823304)
mix format doesn’t have complexity rules. It will never change the semantics, it’s just there to make sure all the braces, brackets, commas, pipes, etc. end up in the same place so that it’s easy to scan a file.

mix format is not a linter it’s a formatter.

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Re:Cursed Elixir by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Monday October 19, 2020 @01:08AM (#24823474)
Indeed, that's why it's acceptable.

Even in that case, sometimes it breaks organization for some code that if kept as is would be more scannable to a human.

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